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6.
Which famous Bengali fictional character introduces
himself for the first time as Atul Chandra Mitra, a
young man in search for a job in Kolkata?
Q-2

7.
Which famous Bengali fictional character introduces
himself for the first time as Atul Chandra Mitra, a
young man in search for a job in Kolkata?
Hint: This is a
picture of old
Burra Bazaar
(erstwhile
Harrison Road).
He used to live in a
Mess in this part of
Kolkata.

8.
Which famous Bengali
fictional character
introduces himself for the
first time as Atul Chandra
Mitra, a young man in
search for a job in
Kolkata? Hint: This is a picture of old Burra
Bazaar (erstwhile Harrison Road). He
used to live in a Mess in this part of
Kolkata.
Byomkesh Bakshi (Satyanweshi)

9.
Who designed this highly acclaimed award, recently
in news for wrong reasons?
Q-3

11.
Q- 4
Prize winning cartoon about the
Soviet Union’s unwillingness to
allow Boris Pasternak to travel to
accept his Nobel Prize. Not that
Pasternak was ever sent to Siberia,
but still...Of course the weird thing
here is that the guy doesn't look a
bit like Pasternak, who had
somewhat striking equine face
with strange, deer-like eyes.
1958 Nobel Prize prevented
Pasternak's imprisonment due to the
Soviet State's fear of international
protests.
The cartoon depicts Pasternak and
another GULAG inmate, splitting trees
in the snow. The caption reads, "I won
the Nobel Prize for literature. What
was your crime?"

12.
Pasternak : author of Doctor Zhivago (1957), a novel which takes place between
the Russian Revolution of 1905 and the WWI. Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958
Pasternak (from left 2nd) with Lilya Brik,
Eisenstein (3rd) and Mayakovsky (centre). On
the left, Japanese writer T. T. Naito , Moscow,
11 May 1924
Bill Mauldin produced a political cartoon which won the
1959 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning.

13.
“I have ventured to send you the
accompanying article for your perusal
and opinion. I am anxious to know
what you think of it…
I do not know sufficient German to
translate the paper. If you think the
paper worth publication I shall be
grateful if you arrange for its
publication in Zeitschrift für Physic.
Though a complete stranger to you, I
do not feel any hesitation in making
such a request. Because we are all your
pupils though profiting only by your
teachings through your writings. …..
somebody from Calcutta asked your
permission to translate your papers on
_________ in English. You acceded to
the request. The book has since
published. I was the one who
translated your paper on
__________________.”
Name the sender and the recipient of this historic letter

14.
“I have ventured to send you the
accompanying article for your perusal
and opinion. I am anxious to know
what you think of it…
I do not know sufficient German to
translate the paper. If you think the
paper worth publication I shall be
grateful if you arrange for its
publication in Zeitschrift für Physic.
Though a complete stranger to you, I
do not feel any hesitation in making
such a request. Because we are all your
pupils though profiting only by your
teachings through your writings. …..
somebody from Calcutta asked your
permission to translate your papers on
_________ in English. You acceded to
the request. The book has since
published. I was the one who
translated your paper on
__________________.”
Satyendra Nath Bose to Albert Einstein
(the birth of Bose-Einstein Statistics)

15.
• Who is the author of the book
“ Accidental Prime Minister –
Making and unmarking of
Manmohan Singh” ?
Q- 6

21.
In his spare time, X began collecting materials from
demolition sites around the city. He recycled these
materials into his own vision of the divine kingdom of
Sukrani, choosing a gorge in a forest near Sukhna
Lake for his work.
The gorge had been designated as a land conservancy,
a forest buffer established in 1902 that nothing could be
built on.
X’s work was illegal, but he was able to hide it for
eighteen years before it was discovered by the
authorities in 1975.
Who was X? What did he create?
Q- 9

23.
What is common to the following books;
Continent of the cerci
Autobiograhy of unknown Indian
A passage to England
Thy Hand, Great Anarch ! (1987)
Hinduism: A Religion to Live by
The East is East and West is West
10

25.
* This chemical element was discovered by
the English chemist Charles Hatchett in
1801 and was named Columbium after
Columbia, the poetical name for America.
* Identify this element which is used in
various superconducting alloys and magnets
of MRI scanners.
Q- 1

26.
Niobium
A 3 tesla clinical magnetic resonance
imaging scanner using niobium-
superconducting alloy
A 1.3 GHz SRF(super conducting Radio frequency)
made from niobium is on display at Fermilab

27.
Clara Ma, won the NASA Essay contest
in 2012.
What was this contest about (that made
her famous)?
Q-2

29.
The New Horizons spacecraft team
revealed close-up photos of the plains on
the surface of Pluto which they have
named Sputnik Planum after the world’s
first man-made satellite.
After whom the big, rugged icy-mountains
has been named?
Q- 3

31.
Chizmi, a nondescript village in North-East
India, is home to more than 200 varieties, as per
the latest survey. Some of them are –
Red Caliph,
Cruiser,
Tawny Emperor,
Wizard
and
Koh-i-Noor.
What am I talking about?
Q- 4

34.
One of the two LIGO interferometers that
detected the gravitational wave discovery
The signal of gravitational waves was recorded by
the
Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave
Observatory (LIGO) in the US and analysed by an
international group of scientists including
Cal Tech, MIT, the LIGO Scientific Collaboration
and the Virgo collaboration in Europe.

35.
Simulated view of a black hole (center) in front of the Large Magellanic
Cloud. Note the gravitational lensing effect, which produces two
enlarged but highly distorted views of the Cloud. Across the top,
the Milky Way disk appears distorted into an arc.
Black Hole radiation better known as:Q- 6

36.
Hawking radiation is black-body radiation that is predicted to be release
by black holes, due to quantum effects near the event horizon. It is
named after the physicist Stephen Hawking, who provided a theoretical
argument for its existence in 1974, and sometimes also after Jacob
Bekenstein, who predicted that black holes should have a finite, non-
zero temperature and entropy

42.
Impossible Triangle sculpture, put together by
Brian MacKay & Ahmad Abas, located in the
Claisebrook Roundabout, East Perth, Perth,
Western Australia. Seen from the correct angle,
this sculpture seems to be a Penrose triangle

46.
He took up some odd-jobs like working as a coach
for Colonel Gaddafi’s son, Al-Saadi, who once aspired
to play professional football.
He also worked as the fitness trainer of Maradona
during the fag end of his career.
It has taken him to Japan, where he subjected
himself to the ignominy of freak show races against
horses and turtles.
Who is this sportsman, known as Benoid in some
sports circles because of his certain past exploits?
1

48.
Never to play in any cricket World Cup, he is one of the
few cricketers to score the most number of centuries (3)
in a single ODI series.
Identify this cricketer who was selected as one of the
Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 2002.
2

50.
In what sports would a player
warm up in an area known as the
bullpen?
3

51.
Baseball.
The bullpen ( pen) is the area where pitchers in
baseball warm up before entering a game.

52.
Rohullah Nikpai
is the first person from his
country to win an Olympic
medal. Which
country?
Q- 4

53.
Afghanistan
Afghan taekwondo practitioner, 2 time Olympic
bronze medalist
Nikpai competed in the 58 kg
category at the 2008 Summer
Olympics, defeating two-time
world champion Juan Antonio
Ramos of Spain to win
the bronze medal, making him
Afghanistan's first Olympic
medalist in any event
Taekwondo is a Korean martial art. incorporating the
elements of Karate and Chinese martial arts along with the
indigenous influences from the Korean martial arts styles
of Taekkyeon, Subak, and Gwonbeop.

54.
In what kind of game is the goal to
reduce a fixed score, commonly 501
or 301, to zero?
5

55.
Darts.
Darts generally refers to a game with the goal of reducing a
fixed score, commonly 501 or 301, to zero (checking out). The
final dart must land in either the bull's eye or a double segment.
Darts is a form of throwing game in which small missiles are thrown at a circular target (dartboard
fixed to a wall. commonly played in the United Kingdom, across the Commonwealth,
the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Republic of Ireland, the Scandinavian countries, the United

57.
Birgit
Fischer
Birgit Fischer (born February 25, 1962) is a German kayaker, who has won eight
gold medals over six different Olympic Games
She has been both the youngest- and oldest-ever Olympic canoeing champion

66.
Which American tournament is always
held in Augusta, Georgia?
Q- 11

67.
US Masters.
The Masters Tournament, also known as The Masters or
The US Masters, is one of the four major championships in
professional Golf.
US Masters is held each year at the same location,
Augusta National Golf Club, in Augusta, Georgia, USA.

68.
Sports Quiz
This trophy is given to the winner of a Professional Golf
tournament in India. Name the event.

72.
Eminent Bengalis:
The following pictures all relate to the life of
this legendary Bengali. Can you identify him
from the pictures?
(Remember: the pictures are ‘chronological’, in
the sense that they relate to events in this
person’s life in this order.)

73.
Eminent Bengalis:
The following pictures all relate to the life of this legendary
Bengali. Can you identify him from the pictures?

74.
Eminent Bengalis:
The following pictures all relate to the life of this
legendary Bengali. Can you identify him from the
pictures?
(Remember: the pictures are ‘chronological’, in the sense that they relate to
events in this person’s life in this order.)

75.
Eminent Bengalis:
The following pictures all relate to the life of this legendary
Bengali. Can you identify him from the pictures?
(Remember: the pictures are ‘chronological’, in the sense that they relate to events in
this person’s life in this order.)

76.
Eminent Bengalis:
The following pictures all relate to the life of this legendary Bengali. Can you
identify him from the pictures?
(Remember: the pictures are ‘chronological’, in the sense that they relate to
events in this person’s life in this order.)

77.
Eminent Bengalis:
The following pictures all relate to the life of this legendary
Bengali. Can you identify him from the pictures?
(Remember: the pictures are ‘chronological’, in the sense that they relate to events in
this person’s life in this order.)

87.
Roy was a founder of the Mexican Communist Party and the
Communist Party of India. He was also a delegate to
congresses of the Communist International

88.
U.S. President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, along with members
of the national security team, receive an update on …………………., a mission
against Osama bin Laden, in one of the conference rooms of the Situation Room
of the White House, May 1, 2011. They are watching live feed from drones
operating over the bin Laden complex

89.
U.S. President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, along with members
of the national security team, receive an update on Operation Neptune's Spear, a
mission against Osama bin Laden, in one of the conference rooms of
the Situation Room of the White House, May 1, 2011. They are watching live feed
from drones operating over the bin Laden complex

92.
•Occupying around 27 sqkm of land at a height of 1525m, the
Apatanitribes of Arunachal Pradesh live in a high density
region with a climate/terrain that does not many agriculture
options.
•However, they innovate by wet paddy farming on terrace slopes
between the months of February-May, and divert every stream
from the hills to these terraces where the paddy needs water.
•Over time, this farming technique has been cleverly integrated
with a new means of livelihood that is simultaneous with the
paddy cultivation season, yielding the Apatanisa new income
stream.
What have the Apataniscleverly integrated with the terrace
paddy farming ?
9

94.
This fruit, referred to as the
Poison Apple,
was considered poisonous in Europe in
the late 1700s because many
Aristocrats would get sick and die after
eating it.
What fruit are we referring to?
Q- 1

95.
Tomatoes!
It wasn’t the tomatoes that were poisonous.
The aristocrats used pewter plates which
contained lead.
The acidic juices of tomatoes would leach
out the Pb from the plates and into their
bodies thereby causing complications.

96.
Identify the plants
Selaginella bryopteris,
occurring in the Aravallis in
MP
Desmotrichum fimbriatum,
occurring in the Western Ghats,
have been shortlisted as
candidates for what
object from
Hindu mythology?
Q- 2

98.
This is actress Ojas Suniti Vijay performing
her play titled ‘Le Mashale’ which was
performed in many Indian cities including
Hyderabad to great acclaim.
Whose life is this play all about?
Q- 3

99.
Sharmila was awarded the 2007 Gwangju Prize for Human Rights
In 2013 Amnesty International declared her a Prisoner of conscience
Sharmila, began to fast in protest Malom Massacre,.[Her primary demand to the Indian
government has been the repeal of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA)
Irom Chanu Sharmila

100.
Moirang, a sleepy town in Manipur, came into
prominence on April 14, 1944 when
Colonel Shaukat Ali Malik did something
extraordinary.
It was the very first instance of that occurrence
in a land liberated from the British.
What did he do?
Q-4

101.
Raised the Indian National Flag
Colonel Shaukat Ali Malik was an officer of
the Indian National Army notable for having
led a unit of the Bahadur Group in the capture
of Moirang during the initial phases of the
INA'sImphal Campaign during World War II.
Moirang was the first territory within India to
be captured by the INA and also the first place
within the mainland of India to be held by
the Azad Hind Government. Col. Malik
Commander of the Intelligent(Bahadur) Group
of INA, planted Indian Tri-colour Flag (with
springing tiger) at the sacred place of Moirang
kangla on 14 April 1944 at about 5 pm, and
also he narrated the history of Azad Hind Fauz.
Malik was awarded the Sardar-e-Jung for his
leading his troops into Moirang.

116.
The Fermi paradox (Fermi's paradox or
Fermi-paradox) is the apparent
contradiction between high estimates of
the probability of the existence of
extraterrestrial civilizations and the lack
of evidence for, or contact with, such
civilizations
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